task action over multiple files using fileglob query

[Walid]

Hi,

I would like  to run the module lineinfile against several files that exist on the remote managed host.  I saw in the changelog for 1.4  that i can use the following lookup plugin feature:

" added a fileglob filter that will return files matching a glob pattern. with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob"

however i did not seem to get it right, see below, could you please let me know what other possible ways to do this, or what i might be doing wrong below 

I tried it with a simple debug task as follows:

- action: shell echo "{{ item }}"

   with_items:

    - " /etc/* | fileglob"

   register: task

   tags:

      - globtest

 - debug: msg="{{item.item}}"

   with_items: task.results

   when: item.changed == True

   tags:

      - globtest

however it did not work for me as i expected it, it returned the following :

TASK: [common | shell echo ""] ************************************************ 

changed: [tlcav117] => (item= /etc/* | fileglob)

TASK: [common | debug msg="{{item.item}}"] ************************************ 

ok: [tlcav117] => (item={'item': ' /etc/* | fileglob', u'delta': u'0:00:00.002148', u'cmd': u'echo " /etc/* | fileglob" ', u'end': u'2013-11-22 23:44:54.216654', u'stderr': u'', u'stdout': u' /etc/* | fileglob', 'invocation': {'module_name': 'shell', 'module_args': u'echo " /etc/* | fileglob"'}, u'changed': True, u'rc': 0, u'start': u'2013-11-22 23:44:54.214506'}) => {

    "item": {

        "changed": true, 

        "cmd": "echo \" /etc/* | fileglob\" ", 

        "delta": "0:00:00.002148", 

        "end": "2013-11-22 23:44:54.216654", 

        "invocation": {

            "module_args": "echo \" /etc/* | fileglob\"", 

            "module_name": "shell"

        }, 

        "item": " /etc/* | fileglob", 

        "rc": 0, 

        "start": "2013-11-22 23:44:54.214506", 

        "stderr": "", 

        "stdout": " /etc/* | fileglob"

    }, 

    "msg": " /etc/* | fileglob"

}

regards

Walid

[Michael DeHaan]

http://ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-fileglobs

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[Walid]

Hi Michael,

i tried with_fileglob first, however it references or resolves files from the local machine running ansible-playbook, not the remote managed machine. what i am trying to do is to change remote configuration files using lineinfile module. 

kind regards

Walid

[Michael DeHaan]

Fileglob always runs locally, this is true.

You should probably run a command like "ls"  remotely and register the result, and then iterate over the result.stdout_lines variable.

[Walid]

Thanks Michael, will do that. what was the new lookup plugin :

with_items: "/foo/pattern/*.txt | fileglob"?

[Michael DeHaan]

Nope, simpler, as in docs:

with_fileglob:

  - /splat/*.txt

-- Michael